Awasos

Awasos was an Abenaki warrior who was one of the leaders of Robert Rogers' Queen's Rangers during the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Awasos was born to the Abenaki tribe of Native Americans in New England, and he served alongside the Kingdom of France's troops during the French and Indian War in the 1750s. He would later be recruited into Robert Rogers' Queen's Rangers in 1775 at the start of the American Revolutionary War, as he was an experienced tracker and warrior. He rose to be Rogers' second-in-command, and he helped him in his ambush of a prisoner exchange in the winter of 1776 in an assassination attempt on Benjamin Tallmadge. He was wounded during the rangers' pursuit of Tallmadge, Selah Strong, and Caleb Brewster towards Elizabeth, New Jersey, but Jordan Strong used squirrel brains to tend to his bullet wound. Awasos disappeared soon after, and he was absent from John Graves Simcoe's formation of the rangers.